Multiple development PC&#39;s

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February 29, 2012 11:18 PM

Does anyone else have a need to do there work on separate PC's? And if so what medium do you use for your files "synced". dropbox? simply use SVN? usb drive?

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Luckless

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March 01, 2012 12:12 AM

I've been using Unison for syncing up my writing projects, but so far I haven't needed to sync a lot in the realm of code. I tend to do small prototypes of a problem in isolation from my main development rig, and then manually weave it into a project after.

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RanBlade

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March 01, 2012 12:18 AM

and then manually weave it into a project after

Not a bad idea. I've never been good at working like that. maybe my skills should be refined.

Eric Ranaldi a.k.a RanBlade

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[size=1]Passion is where great games come from, if you dont live and breathe games you shouldn't be in the games industry."

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Luckless

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March 01, 2012 12:25 AM

The only thing I do on my netbook (code wise) is writing small snippets of stuff to solve little sub problems. Honestly I don't find it is that much of a step up from working out a solution to a problem on paper, and will still need fine tuning of things before can be added to an actual project.

I honestly don't consider myself a great developer, and any suggestions I give on development should be taken with a grain of salt. Possibly one you would consider offering a herd of horses.

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RanBlade

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March 01, 2012 12:36 AM

I asked for the method others used

. I guess a little more backstory on me is I go back and forth between my laptop and PC depending on what my kids are doing. Also there is days/months I end up only having my laptop with me on the job so while I am home with both my systems your method may work out for me. I just prefer to have my whole code base for testing if i finish a system or implement a feature i want to make sure something works.

But I digress all i really asked for was info on what other people did so thx for that.

Eric Ranaldi a.k.a RanBlade

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[size=1]Passion is where great games come from, if you dont live and breathe games you shouldn't be in the games industry."

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[size=1][FreedBSD][My Site][Gamasutra][Khan Acadamey]

Hodgman

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March 01, 2012 01:23 AM

To share code between my laptop and desktop, I use git.
On both PC's, I've shared the folder containing the code (i.e. containing the git repo) and mapped it on the other PC as network drive "[font=courier new,courier,monospace]x:\[/font]".
Then whenever I want to grab changes from the other machine, I can use [font=courier new,courier,monospace]git fetch file://x:[/font] , which pulls over the commits from the other PC into the local repo.

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alnite

3,454

March 01, 2012 01:57 AM

I have used SVN, though I'd try to avoid that as I have to make sure that the development tools I have between PCs match.

tstrimp

1,798

March 01, 2012 02:42 AM

Git + Github + Dropbox and occasionally Cloud9. I work on projects on work laptop, personal laptop or on my macbook air and everything is in sync.

Koobazaur

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March 01, 2012 05:23 AM

I use SVN with my projects and it works great for synching, but I dont switch PCs often so the main reason I use it is because I will, invariably, mess my code up beyond all recognition when refactoring and having that instant "revert" function saved my back on more than one occasion

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jjd

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March 01, 2012 11:48 AM

I use git. I always create a git repo to do whatever work I am doing simply for revision purposes. If I want to work on the project from other machines I clone the repo to my server. If I want to share the repo with others, I then clone it into a repo managed by gitosis on my server. If I want to 'put it out there' I clone it to github.

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